Read the full judgment text of CACC 000072/2002 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 December 2003.
1. This is an application for leave to appeal against conviction and sentence. On 6 February 2002 the applicant was convicted of four counts of conspiracy to defraud banks after a trial before Tong J and a jury. He was sentenced to a total of eight years' imprisonment. The offences are alleged to have taken place in 1998. The prosecution case was that this was a letter of credit fraud by which a company sought to generate cash and to falsify profits by obtaining letters of credit on the basis of